Word: neighborhoods
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...large following of the latter gentry might not find so ready access to the yard. But it has been ascertained on excellent authority that it was the practice of some of the professionals employed to give a package of yard tickets to some accomplice, who would stand in the neighborhood of the gate and sell the tickets to whoever wished to purchase them. The unpleasant results of this dishonest dealing are so apparent that we would urge the class committee to take every possible precaution to prevent a repetition...
...ornaments of our already handsome campus. The interior is as beautiful as the exterior, and very commodious and comfortable. The change from our present dingy, crowded room will be very acceptable. The dedication, we believe, is fixed for commencement. The seating capacity is somewhere in the neighborhood of eight hundred...
...this, for I've heard myself say it a great many times. But there was one topic which I was perfectly willing to discuss, and that was the general excellence and particular fleetness of my Texan. In fact, I allowed it to be pretty universally understood around the neighborhood that I had a little horse with somewhere from three to five feet on him, which he was in the habit of throwing about with considerable promptitude when occasion required...
...iniquity of the Lacrosse Association in getting from the President a grant of land that had been "occupied for years" by others, - to wit, the tennis men. As a matter of fact, when their present ground was given to the Association the only courts that were in the neighborhood were between the Society building and the College Hospital; a position in which they were not likely to be interfered with by the practising of the Team. The other courts that are now crowded in near the path have been marked there since then...
...there were any historical associations connected with it; if the Pilgrims upon landing had taken up their quarters in Grays, and had planted this tree that there might be something fresh and modern in the neighborhood to relieve the antique barrenness of their abode; or if Mr. G. Washington, the only and original father of his country, had, while his troops were encamped in the College buildings, been seized with a severe attack of his monomania, and had gone to whittling the tree or otherwise mutilating it with edged tools; or if the early College presidents had been...